Advertising device.



. PATBNTED APR. 30. 1907. H. P. EOKERSBBRG. ADVERTISING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.13, 1907.

[NI/EN TOR A/fvmvys nuswomns PETERS co HARRY F. EOKERSBERG, OF MONESSEN, PENNSYLVANIA.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Application filed February 13, 1907. Serial No. 357.188.

To all whmn it may concern,-

ggBe it known that I, HARRY F. EOKERS- BERG, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Monessen, in the county of \Vestmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference be ing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an advertising device, and the invention aims to provide a device having an attractive and amusing feature which will attract ones eye and attention to the advertisement in connection with which it is used.

The mechanical features of my improved advertising device are arranged to be operated by the radiation of heat or hot air, the device being located in close proximity to a radiator, gas jet, or lamp whereby the radiating heat will continuously operate the mechanism of the device.

The detail construction of my improved device will be hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the appended claims, and referring to the drawing forming part of this specification, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the advertising device, Fig. 2 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of a revolublc actuating shaft, Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view of the device illustrating the supporting base in plan.

The supporting base of my improved device consists of a strip of material 1 preferably of wood to which is adjustably connected as at 2, an arm 3 carrying a standard 3 provided with brackets 4 and 5. In the bracket 4 is journaled a vertically disposed actuating shaft 6, the lower end of said shaft engaging in a bearing 7 carried by the bracket 5, while the upper end of said shaft is provided with an eyelet 8, and with a bladed propeller wheel 9. Secured to the brackets 4 and 5, and the arm 3 is a vertically disposed plate 10, which in the present instance conforms in outline to the shape of a bottle or similar receptacle. The top of the plate 10 is provided with an outwardly extending pin or screw 11, upon which is loosely mounted a depending rod 12 having an upwardly extending prong 14, the latter lying in the path of radially disposed arms 15 carried by the actuating shaft 6. Upon the end of the rod 12 is suspended at jointed burlesque figure 16.

To operate my improved device, the supporting base 1 is placed upon a radiator or above a suitable source of heat radiation, but a lamp or similar heating medium can be readily placed upon the supporting base whereby the air set in motion by the heat radiating from the same will strike the bladed propeller wheel 9 and revolve the same. As the wheel 9 revolves and rotates the shaft 6, said shaft oscillates the rod 12, through the medium of the radially disposed arms 15 of said shaft striking the upwardly extending prong 14 of the rod 12. In oscillating the rod 12, the jointed figure 16 is jolted, and a motion is imparted to it similar to a jumping jack.

The plate 10 can be used for displaying a suitable advertisement and when the plate in outline conforms to a bottle the device is particularly designed for advertising medieines, liquors and such articles as are dis pensed in bottle form. The jointed figure 16 is made as comical and burlesque as possible in order to immediately attract ones at tention to the advertisement displayed upon the plate 10.

The eyelet S is provided whereby the ad vertising device can be suspended from a suitable support in which instance the supporting base can be removed if desired.

It is obvious that the entire device may be suitably ornamented and operated from a suitable source of heat radiation.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An advertising device consisting of a supporting base, an arm adjustably connected thereto, a standard carried by said arm, brackets carried by said standards, an actuating shaft revolubly supported by said brackets, a bladed propeller wheel carried by the upper end of said shaft, a plate secured to said brackets and said adjustable arm, a rod loosely connected to the upper end of said plate, a jointed figure suspended from said rod, and means carried by said shaft for engaging and oscillating said rod.

2. An advertising device consisting of a base, a standard supported thereby, brackets carried by said standard, a shaft revolubly supported by said brackets, a propeller wheel carried by the upper end of said shaft, a plate supported bysaid brackets and said base,

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a rod loosely mounted at the upper end of said plate, a jointed figure suspended from said rod, and means carried by said revoluble shaft for oscillating said rod.

3. An amusement device consisting of a base, a vertically disposed plate, a revoluble shaft arranged in the rear of said plate, a jointed figure suspended in front of said plate, a propeller Wheel carried by the upper end of said shaft, and means actuated by said shaft, to oscillate said jointed figure.

4. An advertising device consisting of a vertically disposed plate, a revoluble shaft journaled in the rear of said plate, a jointed figure suspended in front of saidplate', a 15 propeller Wheel carried by said shaft, and means actuated by said shaft to impart a jumping jack movement to said jointed ure.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 20 in the presence of two Witnesses:

HARRY F. ECKERSBERG.

Witnesses:

DANIEL REAMER, CALVIN H. DILs. 

